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 "title": "Prayer for a Revival",
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    "text": "Saviour, visit thy plantation,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Grant us, Lord, a gracious rain!",
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   {
    "text": "All will come to desolation",
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   {
    "text": "Unless thou return again:",
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    "text": "Keep no longer at a distance,",
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    "text": "Shine upon us from on high,",
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    "text": "Lest, for want of thine assistance,",
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    "text": "Every plant should droop and die.",
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   {
    "text": "Surely once thy garden flourish’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Every part look’d gay and green;",
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   {
    "text": "Then thy word our spirits nourish’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Happy seasons we have seen!",
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   {
    "text": "But a drought has since succeeded,",
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   {
    "text": "And a sad decline we see;",
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    "text": "Lord thy help is greatly needed,",
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    "text": "Help can only come from thee.",
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    "text": "Where are those We counted leaders,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fill’d with zeal and love and truth?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Old professors, tall as cedars,",
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   {
    "text": "Bright examples to our youth?",
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   {
    "text": "Some, in whom we once delighted,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We shall meet no more below;",
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   {
    "text": "Some, alas! we fear are blighted⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Scarce a single leaf they show.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Younger plants⁠—the sight how pleasant⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Cover’d thick with blossoms stood;",
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   {
    "text": "But they cause us grief at present⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Frosts have nipp’d them in the bud!",
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   {
    "text": "Dearest Saviour, hasten hither,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou canst make them bloom again;",
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   {
    "text": "Oh permit them not to wither,",
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   {
    "text": "Let not all our hopes be vain!",
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    "text": "Let our mutual love be fervent,",
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   {
    "text": "Make us prevalent in pray’rs:",
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   {
    "text": "Let each one esteem’d thy servant",
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   {
    "text": "Shun the world’s bewitching snares;",
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   {
    "text": "Break the tempter’s fatal power,",
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   {
    "text": "Turn the stony heart to flesh:",
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   {
    "text": "And begin, from this good hour,",
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   {
    "text": "To revive thy work afresh.",
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